ABOUT ME

"Reaching for the stars, I have always strived for creative output and producing artistic content for those around me. I am often referred to as my school's hard working musician, constantly creating music when I have the time to, though there is more to me than just my music, I have strived to be the best in what I am interested in, whether that is music, cooking, writing, bouldering, web designing, and more. My goals are set high, and I will complete them successfully! Through this Digital Portfolio I will show you my interest and passions."
​- Desmond Tsosie

Why I Chose Animas High School

Animas High School has always strived to create an environment for both artistic and logical thinkers, a place of freedom and excitement, and a place of happiness! Never before have I seen students so thrilled and entertained by their learning experience and ready for the future and the upcoming challenge which is living as an individual, in this school I will discover who I want to be and what I goals I want to overcome! I'm so excited to have thousands of experiences and be a part of this colourful community!

The Ravens / My Music 

I started a band called 'The Ravens' in early 2022 with an incredible drummer by the name of Julian Dugas, we first performed together at 'Outdoorsy' with our 7th period music class before finally hitting the stage at '11th Street Station' performing our iconic songs "Useless" and "Imperfections Feel Like Heaven" around fall the band expanded adding three more talented musicians to the band, Eila Lance on Bass, Natalie Obleton on Guitar, and Mia Macon on classical piano aswell as being taught by guitarist of Elder Grown, Nu Bass Theory, and Hello Dollface, Guillaume Metz. After performing..

• Imperfections Feel Like Heaven
• Mystery Cloud
• Broken (Alfie Templeman Cover)

The band and I started learning more and more songs to expand our band's setlist, now with countless songs being written everyday we hope to debut my 20 song album 'Retrouvailles' at The Community Concert hall at Fort Lewis College. Our goals are set high and this is the first step towards the bigger picture and we're already in the sky.
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ABOUT ME:
I began creating music in 2019, creating a song titled "Falling in Love" on my cheap christmas keyboard, after then I started to expand my understanding of music being taught by Jay Harootarian, Guillaume Metz, Jesse Ogle, Sam Kelly, and Ashley Edwards of the IAM Music Institute. Creating a positive track record along the way, I am in learning (2023) of 

• Vocals (Ashley Edwards)
• Guitar (Guillaume Metz & Jay Harootarian)
• Piano 
• Bass 
• Music Theory 
• Music Performance (Ashley Edwards, Jesse Ogle, & more) 

I am currently performing in The Ravens and my AHS student band, aswell as doing solo acoustic performances at multiple places around Durango CO and expanding to Mancos. I have performed and spoke at Eulous for a fundraising for IAM Music, aswell as 'Create Art and Tea' and I'm hoping to expand outside of that. I have a long way to go but am already on the path to success! 

My ANIMAS QUILL MEDIA Website

At animasquill.org you will be able to find countless feature stories and news updates about animas high school, this website includes stories, upcoming events, photos and videos, news from the nest, podcasts and nest meeting performance recordings, advertisements, and more eye capturing content, and it's all created by me! I also wrote cover stories for the quill that appears on the 'Durango Telegraph'
I have accomplished so much in this class and created the first format of the animas quill singlehandly.

My Photography

'The Ravens' Music Showcase [Aelpha Collective]